is there anyone who isn't an exec that is happy and proud to work for Cisco? Imagine you were making the same and could pick any other company. Would you stay?
No HR shills or contract social media people need respond.
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our team has not been able to have a freaking offsite for 2 years now
My last team get together was 2019. We’ve been told there’ll never be another.
Write a negative feedback on your manager who dumped you. Email it to HR and upper management, they will keep it in his file as a record or history. Your gift to manager on who how bad his/her leadership was.
Why would you be "proud" to work anywhere? Stop tying your identity to your job.
People were voting best place to work because no-one in cisco believes any surveys are anonymous. Everyone was thinking they will be fired in next LRs if they give bad scores.
I was surprised by the high ratings Cisco has on Glassdoor, it seem they come from older reviews though.
I know someone who filled out the "great place to work" survey ( don't know official name but it's the one uses to identify us as that, maybe it's from Glassdoor) last year, they answered positively even though they were not happy because of fear they'd be identified as not answering positively lol
So who knows.
I do like working for Cisco. Been here for 16 years already, had 4 different roles, and I only hated one of those (and the team I was part of).
It really depends on the organization you belong to and it's culture. I guess it also depends on the location. I am in EMEA.
I love working from home, I like that I always get new challenges, I like it that I can learn, I like most of the people I am working with.
But I don't like that while some folks and teams can travel left and right, our team has not been able to have a freaking offsite for 2 years now. I don't like the LRs of course, and I feel sorry for everyone impacted (and I know that it will be my turn one day). I don't like it that while I am a high performer, it is difficult to get promoted.
I don't think it would be better elsewhere, so I made a decision to stay until I can.
Cisco was awesome years ok now it’s just a company. I also think removing from the TAC is short sighted as the only reason Cisco has been viable IMO is the quality of the people. Outsourcing to other countries as good as they are are can be doesn’t work as effectively. As someone who worked in both situations.
My biggest problem with Cisco is that it's not a meritocracy where the best performance and the best ideas win. There are so many managers that only promote a-s kissers and have their little gang. Nothing is checked or data driven. Dissent is seen as mutiny rather than discourse. And so on.
Many things are just really badly designed, incoherent, incompatible and come with so many weird quirks and limitations that make them unusable in even straightforward scenarios.
Incredibly dense, layered and opaque. Everything
Nailed it. Without engineering support, I don’t know how customers configure most of our stuff.
My crush still works here !
Be honest >
First few years - Proud
Next few years - Confused
Then - The only PRIDE I see is in emails and CEC captions.
Past year or 2 - Ashamed. I am BEING HONEST, as OP asked.
It adds up to 15 + years.
Best Place To Work - Hey, some facilities are really good and people friendly. Overall, BPTW is a good joke. Don't take it too seriously.
I hate it here. We build cheap products and rip off customers.
I do think Cisco has fairly weak leadership and vision and the LRs are a symptom of that. We also still make pretty good hardware but there's a lack in execution, and more prominently, quality within our software portfolio. All the while we're trying so desperately to be a software company.
Many things are just really badly designed, incoherent, incompatible and come with so many weird quirks and limitations that make them unusable in even straightforward scenarios.
Incredibly dense, layered and opaque. Everything takes at least 10 minutes to boot and 5 minutes to load for no apparent reason. Death by a thousand paper cuts.
With the reduction in TAC and CX resources I do see a worrying trend of reducing availability for hand-holding customers through dealing with this.
We have brilliant people in many areas. But they are lead by the wrong incentives and there is no longer a culture of quality that inspires pride in the work that you do.
A lot of it, I think, has to do with the feeling that the company doesn't seem to care. About itself, about the people that work there, or about its customers.
As a company that is trying to rely more and more on recurring revenue it is going to be very hard to achieve this if products don't kick-a-s and customers leave because they're not receiving guidance and support in getting value from their investments. Recurring revenue is only great for shareholder value if it does, in fact, recur. And somehow, if capitalism would do it's freaking job, that should incentivize us to build better products.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Yes, I have 30 years of professional experience, 6 of those years at Cisco. I have worked on start ups and other large companies like Cisco. Yes, the layoffs have been very draining, but I'm willing to put the work to turn things around. Giving 6 months of pay + Cobra, plus vested RSU until December is not normal at all. This is the kind of stuff that only companies like Cisco does.
"Layoffs are the norm. Cisco actually does them less often than many,"
LIE
Justifying our sick behavior at Cisco is just wrong! We need to stop saying we are the best place to work. We are NOT!
@ach+1uyGsboF Which PR firm did Cisco hire to post this?
Cisco isn't the problem. Directing your anger at Cisco won't fix the problem. Layoffs are the norm. Cisco actually does them less often than many,
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/tech-layoffs-2024-list/